Chirac Boycotts Start of EU Summit to Protest Use of English

Bloomberg reports:

French President Jacques Chirac stormed out of the first session of a European summit today to snub a French businessman who switched into English to make an appeal for steps to boost economic competitiveness.

Chirac pulled France's foreign and finance ministers out of the session when French native Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, head of the European Union industry federation, launched into English, a French official told journalists in Brussels.

Seilliere, invited to the summit to discuss ways of spurring Europe's economy, said he spoke in English because it is the ``language of business,'' the official said. Chirac and his ministers returned after Seilliere left.

The French Way:strike,boycott,and don't reproduce but ask if you can retire at 55.